Compaq R3140us vs R3240us

[Anthony Kolasny]

Greetings:

I've been using the PLD LiveCD 1.0beta2 on a Compaq Presario R3140us for
the last couple months with great success. The 3d graphics and wireless
worked fine with a minute or two of minor updates.

http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~akolasny/pld-r3140us.html have the steps.

I've had trouble installing PLD LiveCD on the Compaq Persario R3240us.
This machine has a newer graphics card and a 5in1 memory slot. When I boot
the laptop with 'pld noapic acpi=off res=1280p pretty', it hangs after
idenifying the 'nvidia' graphics. When I boot using 'pld noapic acpi=off
res=1280p pretty driver=vesa', the machine boots and I'm able to install
to the hard drive. The wireless works and 2d graphics work fine. However,
I am unable to get 3d graphics to function. I downloaded the NVIDIA driver
the GeForce 440 Go, added gcc and kernel source and tried to install it.
It didn't work. Next, I ran 'poldek --upgrade-dist'. I still couldn't get
the 3D driver to work. In the xorg.conf, I tried the driver 'nvidia' and
'nv'. The 'nvidia' driver locks up the machine on boot.

I know the PLD group is focused on releasing the PLD 2.0 distribution. 
This may be a concern for that release as well. 

Attached is the 'lspci'. Any suggestions are greatly apprecitated.

Thanks,
Anthony
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00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01)